[Python-Dev] this is what happens if you freeze all the modules required for startup

[Brett Cannon]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Glenn Linderman <v+python at g.nevcal.com>wrote:

>  On 4/14/2014 2:51 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>
>  consider freezing all the modules
>
> ...
>
>  Now the question is whether the maintenance cost of having to rebuild
> Python for a select number of stdlib modules
>
>
> "all" versus "select number".
>
> So I'm guessing the proposal is to freeze all the modules that Python
> imports just to get itself running, which would consume no additional
> memory when frozen, and saves time per your performance numbers, rather
> than the whole stdlib, which is what is sort of implied by "all".
>

Yes, exactly.
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